A report on TYPSET and RUNOFF, Jerry Saltzer and Multics

The original RUNOFF type-setting program for CTSS was written by Jerome H. Saltzer circa 1964.

In the later 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the team leaders of the Multics operating system project.

Morris and McIlroy then moved the BCPL version to Multics when the IBM 7094 on which CTSS ran was being shut down.

RUNOFF, a very early text-formatting program which was the basis for roff and nroff

runoff (rf)

F. J. Corbató, C. T. Clingen, J. H. Saltzer, Multics – The First Seven Years (AFIPS, 1972) is an excellent review, written after a considerable period of use and improvement over the initial efforts.